ELECTION NEWS: Calendar – Local & State Ballot Questions

 

 

 

November 6, 2018 General Election will be an all-mail ballot delivery.   Ballots will be mailed to all active eligible registered electors the week of October 15, 2018.

Election Offenses:

C.R.S. 1-13-106 Forgery- Any person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any ballot before or after it has been cast, or who forges any name of a person as a signer or witness to a petition or nomination paper, or who forges any letter of acceptance, declination, or withdrawal, or who forges the name of a registered elector to a voter’s mail-in or mail ballot commits forgery which is a class five 5 felony.

C.R.S. 1-13-112 Offenses relating to mail ballots – Any person who, by use of force or other means, unduly influences an elector to vote in any particular manner or to refrain from voting, or who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any mail ballot before or after it has been cast, or who destroys, defaces, mutilates, or tampers with such a ballot shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

What’s on our ballot for November 6, 2018 General Election?

  • Federal and State (Candidates & Measures)
  • Judges Retention (State & Local)
  • Local Candidates
  • Prowers County Ballot Issue 1A
  • Lamar School District RE-2Ballot Issue 4A
  • Prowers County Hospital District Ballot Question 7A
  • Bent – Prowers Cemetery District Ballot Issue 7C

IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2018 PRIMARY & GENERAL ELECTION:

  • Monday, October 15-19, 2018: Ballots will be mailed to all active eligible electors. Also made available, 24/7 drive by/walk up ballot drop box in the east entrance of the courthouse parking lot.
  • Monday, October 15-19, 2018: Last day to submit an application to register to vote through a voter registration drive. (no later than 22 days before the election)
  • Monday, October 29, 2018: Last day to submit an application to register to vote through the mail, a voter registration agency, a local driver’s license examination facility, or online to receive a ballot in the mail for the General Election. (through the 8th day prior to the election)
  • Monday, October 29, 2018: Last day to file an absentee ballot application to receive the absentee ballot by mail if you are absent from your home address.
  • Monday, October 29, 2018 – November 6, 2018: Voters can register to vote, obtain a replacement ballot or drop off their mail in ballots in person at the Prowers County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, 301 S. Main St., Ste. 210, Lamar, CO 81052.
  • Prowers County Clerk and Recorder’s Office: Election Department will be open on Saturday, October 27 and Saturday, November 3 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for ballot drop off, replacement ballots.
  • November 6, 2018: ELECTION DAY

Prowers County Clerk and Recorder’s Office is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 301 S. Main St., Ste. 210, Lamar, CO 81052.

  • Return mail ballots, with appropriate postage or hand deliver to: Prowers County Clerk’s Office, 301 S. Main St., Ste. 210, Lamar, CO 81052.

If you have a question or need to update your address for your voter registration you can check all of that information at: govotecolorado.com or contact us at the Prowers County Clerk’s Office, 336-8011 or election@prowerscounty.net.

Media Information
Jana Coen
Prowers Clerk and Recorder

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